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Article: Appetite for guns sends bullet sales shooting ; Ammunition runs short with glut of firearms
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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LOS ANGELES - There's a bull market for bullets.
Stacks of ammo, once piled high at gun shops across America, have
dwindled. Prices paid by consumers for much sought-after Winchester
.380-caliber handgun bullets (a common name for cartridges) have
doubled. At weekend gun shows, trailers loaded with boxes of
ammunition are drained within hours.
Budget-pressed police departments, which can't be caught short,
have increased their orders just to be safe, and the US military,
fighting two wars, has seen its need for bullets quadruple in recent
years.
Industry officials say the appetite for ammo in the United States
is unprecedented.
Bullets are in demand as the United States' interest in ...